CPT Knowledgebase - Oct 6, 2025

For a blood culture test (CPT code 87040), if a provider orders a blood culture on 8/1, and the same provider/group reviews the blood culture results on 8/2 (no growth), then on 8/3 (gram-positive cocci), and finally on 8/4 (sensitivities), how would this provider appropriately capture data credit in the coding tool (eg. only the initial order, daily review, daily independent interpretation, other) for an inpatient E/M visit where they see the patient daily?

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